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• @Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 2026-04-08 01:27

  Thanks to better manufacturing techniques, engineering analysis, and the fine humans in management, we have gotten really good at barely building a machine that lasts just long enough to be out of warranty.

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• @5715@feddit.org 2026-04-07 22:40

  Increase in precision (materially and economically) then leads to rebound effects; higher precision should lead to lower material flows, but the opposite happens because the technological progress broadens the market when possible

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